I shoot the piss out of just about everything. My guns typically are not safe queens. The Trooper, and most likely this one will come out only rarely. I will say this cold fits me wonderfully, It will be harder for me to resist not shooting it.

I know the feeling. I have a nickel Colt Det Spl and a blue S&W model 10 with no turn lines. I also have a few dozen others to shoot if I get the urge so I can deal with my safe queens..

The trooper is a reblue by colt, From what i have been told when dropping it off is that Trunbull does their royal blue. Hence the 6-9 month turn around. So the hesitation for shooting it is more sentimental than monetary. It was a gift by a mentor before we moved out here to ct.

Beautiful pieces! Now go shoot the sh*t out of them!!!!!!

Beautiful guns!!!! Congratulations!!!!
I understand the safe queen mentality, but for some reason I recently find myself gravitating towards my queens and carrying them. Guess I broke through that barrier, now I will really enjoy my guns to the max.

I ran 200 rounds of tula steel cased through it. With 0 issues, I then ran one box of brassed cased remington umc and had a failure to eject. At this point though the gun was smoking hot. As the 200 rounds had been very fast. I will give it a pass, I had no other issues with the brass ammo after a brief cool down. I need to clean it and get some photos for you.

Okay a detailed stripped clean after the first 250 rounds. I did my best to take better photos for you all.

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